名校最新大学英语四级阅读精讲的系列讲义：(125)_大学英语阅读

名校最新大学英语四级阅读精讲的系列讲义：(125)

　　In 58 million homes, the VCR has become nearly as much as the family car. But despite the VCRs advantages, video buffs complain about its limits. To duplicate prerecorded movies, for instance, requires two VCRs awkwardly cabled together. No wonder, then, that fans at Chicagos Consumer Electronics Show last week were excited by a new machine that eliminates the drawback. Moreover, its appearance was a triumph over well wired opposition in Tokyo and Hollywood.

　　The center of the excitement was the first dual deck videotape recorder available to US consumers, the VCR2, made by the tiny Arizona based Go Video company.The VCR2 enables its users to make high quality duplicates of prerecorded tapes easily. It also lets viewers watch a tape while simultaneously recording off the air. Go Video hopes to have a limited supply of the VCR2 in stores by Christmastime, priced at just under $1,000.

　　But the machines move from freeze frame to faster forward has not been easy.

　　For starters, Go Video could find no Japanese companies, which control manufacture of crucial VCR parts, willing to provide needed components. For another thing, US movie studios opposed the machine. So the company sued 15 Japanese and Korean makers, plus the Hollywood studios, claiming restrain of trade. Several manufactures have now settled with Go Video, and Koreas Smsung, is tooling up to produce the VCR2. Meanwhile, Hollywood has modified its opposition because GoVideo agreed to install circuitry that will prevent the VCR2 from copying movies protected by anti theft coding. Still movie makers may see double for a while. Many of the films on store shelves, including hot new rentals like Coming to America and Crocodile Dundee Ⅱ, do not contain the coding.